Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it {as at the Chiverses'} one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms {the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or}, seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.
( Edith Wharton )
[ The Age of Innocence ]
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